Rove: Obama won 'by suppressing the vote'

GOP strategist Karl Rove went on Fox News today to argue that President Barack Obama "succeeded by suppressing the vote" -- an argument that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom that Romney failed to appeal to non-white and female voters.

Rove argued that Obama won with a smaller popular vote and a smaller margin of victory than in the 2008 election against Sen. John McCain. Instead of expanding voters, Rove argued, Obama "suppressed the vote" by demonizing former Gov. Mitt Romney and encouraging people not to vote.

"President Obama has become the first president in history to win a second term with a smaller percentage of the vote than he did in the first term," Rove said.

"But he won Karl, he won!" Fox News host Megyn Kelly interjected. Kelly also asked Rove how Republicans intended to appeal to minority groups, especially Hispanics, after doing so much to alienate them in 2012. Rove pointed to Hispanic-voter turnout in Texas to argue that there was no fundamental disconnect between his party and Latino voters.

As many pundits and strategists have pointed out, the Obama campaign succeeded in large part because it appealed to -- and registered -- non-white voters, expanding (rather than suppressing) the vote in key battleground states.

In a subsequent segment, Kelly would cite "demographics" and a "racial divide in the voting booth" that "raised questions" about whether the GOP needed to do more to reach Latinos and African-Americans. "Why can't the Republicans do better with people of color?" she asked her guests.

Rove's appearance on Fox News follows the now-infamous moment from election night when he argued with Kelly and co-host Bret Baier over the network's decision to call Ohio for the president.

This. Limited government advocates do not need a piece of scum like Karl Rove being the face of their brand. Replace him w/ Ron Paul and we're off to a damn good start.

"I pledge allegiance to the Fed, of the United States of Bernakistan, and to the S&P 500 for which it stands, one ponzi, under Federal Reserve Notes, with debt-serfdom and food stamps for all." - Michael Kreiger

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken

If Rove wants to blame anybody for suppressing the vote, he should look in a mirror, and at other establishment status quo Republicans. They successfully suppressed their own Republican vote by doing everything they could to ensure the nomination of a big government flip flopping liberal phaggot like Mitt Romney.

"I pledge allegiance to the Fed, of the United States of Bernakistan, and to the S&P 500 for which it stands, one ponzi, under Federal Reserve Notes, with debt-serfdom and food stamps for all." - Michael Kreiger

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken

If Rove wants to blame anybody for suppressing the vote, he should look in a mirror, and at other establishment status quo Republicans. They successfully suppressed their own Republican vote by doing everything they could to ensure the nomination of a big government flip flopping liberal phaggot like Mitt Romney.

Who?? And gtfo if you say Ron Paul.

Nothing was wrong with Romney, anyone would have been fighting an uphill battle.

Romney couldn't even motivate enough of his own base to vote for him. He was a chit candidate. The John Kerry of 2012.

Yup. A few days before the election I was saying on here "when Obama barely beats Romney, it should send a message that the American people don't like much of what Obama's doing. Barely beating Romney should tell Obama we're watching him."

Obama had a better grassroots level team doing an impressive job of getting individuals to vote.

Nothing was wrong with Romney, anyone would have been fighting an uphill battle.

You have got to be kidding me, Obama has one of the weakest records as an incumbent in history. This election should have been a landslide, but the Republicans royally screwed it up.

"I pledge allegiance to the Fed, of the United States of Bernakistan, and to the S&P 500 for which it stands, one ponzi, under Federal Reserve Notes, with debt-serfdom and food stamps for all." - Michael Kreiger

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken

If Rove wants to blame anybody for suppressing the vote, he should look in a mirror, and at other establishment status quo Republicans. They successfully suppressed their own Republican vote by doing everything they could to ensure the nomination of a big government flip flopping liberal phaggot like Mitt Romney.

lol Rove has some balls calling vote fraud after stealing Ohio in 2004, which swung the election, and maybe being behind Mike Connell's unfortunate small plane crash just before he was to testify in Ohio v. Kenneth Balckwell vote-stealing case. Connell's own sister now believes it was foul play.

Michael Louis Connell (November 30, 1963  December 19, 2008) was a high-level Republican consultant who was subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with the 2004 U.S. Presidential election and a case involving thousands of missing emails pertaining to the political firing of U.S. Attorneys. Connell was killed when the plane he was flying crashed on December 19, 2008.

Request for protection

In July 2008, the lead attorney in the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell case, Cliff Arnebeck, sent a letter [3] to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey seeking protection for Connell as a witness in the case, saying he had been threatened. Arnebeck wrote, We have been confidentially informed by a source we believe to be credible that Karl Rove has threatened Michael Connell, a principal witness we have identified in our King Lincoln case in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, that if he does not agree to 'take the fall' for election fraud in Ohio, his wife Heather will be prosecuted for supposed lobby law violations." [4] Arnebeck claims that months later, his source called back and warned that Connell's life was in danger.[5]

He was served with a subpoena in Ohio on September 22, 2008,[6] in a case alleging that vote-tampering during the 2004 presidential election resulted in civil rights violations. Connell, president of GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications, was a website designer and IT professional and created a website for Ohio Secretary of StateKen Blackwell that presented the results of the 2004 election in real time as they were tabulated. At the time, Blackwell was also chairman of the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection effort in Ohio. Connell refused to testify or to produce documents relating to the system used in the 2004 and 2006 elections, lawyers said.[7]

On December 31, 2008 it was reported that air traffic controllers had noted prior to the crash that Connell was off course, that they had been in communication with him regarding this, and that he had been trying to get back on course at the time of the crash. There were reported to have been no signs of mechanical problems with the plane.[9]

The National Transportation Safety Board published its final report into the accident that killed Connell on January 28, 2010. The board concluded that Connell had lost control of the aircraft as a result of disorientation while turning in cloud. During a pre-flight briefing Connell had commented that he wanted to return to Akron before the weather "went from bad to worse". Several other pilots in the vicinity had reported severe icing at the time of the crash; Connell's aircraft was not equipped or approved to fly in icing conditions.[10]

A January 2010 article in Maxim Magazine speculated that because Connell possessed knowledge which, if revealed, would be damaging to high-level Republicans, his death may have been the result of sabotage of his aircraft,[11] particularly as his cell-phone was never recovered.[12]Project Censored, a small non-profit organization, has called for a Federal criminal investigation; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has called the case "more serious than Watergate."

No, I was just calling Karl Rove an idiot. I don't think any "voter suppression" could have changed this landslide. Romney was a poor candidate, and he didn't generate much enthusiasm. This election would have been a slam dunk for the GOP if they nominated a likable candidate.

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No, I was just calling Karl Rove an idiot. I don't think any "voter suppression" could have changed this landslide. Romney was a poor candidate, and he didn't generate much enthusiasm. This election would have been a slam dunk for the GOP if they nominated a likable candidate.

Well then I took what you said, and combined it with the thread topic, and said what I said. Problem??

The only people suppressing anybody voting was the GOP with their antiquated/hypocritical social agenda.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee

Well then I took what you said, and combined it with the thread topic, and said what I said. Problem??

Aside from you misrepresenting my opinion, we're all good. Karl Rove is a marginally intelligent strategist that has had a lot of success persuading feeble minded members of the electorate who frequently watch Fox News.

Short selling is a business widely unpopular with everyone who has a stake in seeing stock prices go up.

"An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public." -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

At the beginning of the empire, taxes were low and revenues were high. At the end of the empire, taxes were high and revenues were low.